The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Kunt 4 Life]

I'd say we're already there with the 'maths is racist' shtick to be honest.

Ah jaysus I forgot about that one 

Maths is racist?

And what is culturaly appropriate clothing?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Deleted my Twitter account yesterday solely after seeing Musk courting that Gript media shower and then asking about when our elections are.  Cue a few posts of "what manner of interference is he planning" and a shit ton of blue tick lads saying sure wouldn't it be grand to get him involved, wouldn't his money go a long way to a few parties here and suddenly the absolute density of it hit me.  Richest man in the world having a new pet interest or little toy with irish politics based entirely off what Scallan has told him.

A site packed to the rafters with paying contrarians and disinfo artists peddling their fuckin wares for outrage clicks, the entire site is a gish gallop being blasted into my mind 24/7 and it is rotten.  Bot fucking central too.  I don't want to read this shit anymore. Whether it happens or not I couldn't be fucked with any of his shit any more so the only way out is off of it.

Anyway I'm just giving out, 15 years on there and plenty of friends on there I will miss interacting with, it is just very severely not for me anymore.

Going to do the same once I get back home. I've been holding out for the sake of promoting my research, since Twitter has been a huge platform for academics for years now, but that just doesn't cut it as a moral apology anymore. Enjoying the slower pace and calmer vibes of Mastodon anyway.

[Carnage]

Maths is racist?

https://twitter.com/rose_k01/status/1652949294880813057?s=20

[Kunt 4 Life]

Surely that's a parody. That woman must be taking the piss.

[ochoill]

Going to do the same once I get back home. I've been holding out for the sake of promoting my research, since Twitter has been a huge platform for academics for years now, but that just doesn't cut it as a moral apology anymore. Enjoying the slower pace and calmer vibes of Mastodon anyway.

The few things that kept me holding on were for posting my guitar pedals - which I do significantly more of and get more sales vs. posts on IG so no loss - and for band promo/spam, which is also better served elsewhere.  I have a handful of Third Island promo posts to do for two months on and off so I left that page there for now just to mirror IG posts, but I'll delete that soon after and not using it otherwise.

[astfgyl]

Metalfests would be totally ballixed... Sure all the studs and leather was appropriated from the gay community     

Shhhhh don't tell everyone 

Surely that's a parody. That woman must be taking the piss.

I dunno about that one in particular but the idea has been floated about for a while in a serious fashion. Must file it away with racist gardening

Going to do the same once I get back home. I've been holding out for the sake of promoting my research, since Twitter has been a huge platform for academics for years now, but that just doesn't cut it as a moral apology anymore. Enjoying the slower pace and calmer vibes of Mastodon anyway.

The few things that kept me holding on were for posting my guitar pedals - which I do significantly more of and get more sales vs. posts on IG so no loss - and for band promo/spam, which is also better served elsewhere.  I have a handful of Third Island promo posts to do for two months on and off so I left that page there for now just to mirror IG posts, but I'll delete that soon after and not using it otherwise.

Not to be too much of a cunt about it, but this is what all the Trump crowd were saying when the last chap was in charge,  except they were going to gab instead of mastodon.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a social network where politics is banned in any colour. Religion as well could go and then leave the partisan stuff to the rest of the channels. I can't see it happening though as the Americanisation is too strong everywhere now and nearly everyone is one or the other. It's a pity that was the outcome of connecting everyone

Edit: for what it's worth I far preferred the old Twitter.  The current version is really shit

[ochoill]

Not to be too much of a cunt about it, but this is what all the Trump crowd were saying when the last chap was in charge,  except they were going to gab instead of mastodon.

Fair, but I also have no fuckin interest staying there out of some bizarre counter point to prove I can outlast some strangers on a website.  especially when I wasn't there as a counter to anything.  I was just There.  If leaving somehow furthers the (lack of, maybe) dichotomy of it all, it's someone else's argument to have because I don't care about being ultimately right or wrong with it, just being gone.

[astfgyl]

There was the "following" tab as well but to be fair I never use that one either.

Ever tried Gab? 

[hellfire]

Is Gab still going? I was on it for a bit and it was terrible. Rabid Jew haters seemed to account for about 90% of posts.

[Eoin McLove]

I've avoided Twitter and all that stuff so far and it seems like it was a good decision. I get irritated by the shit I read and hear about the culture wars- it is designed precisely to get under your skin- but I can easily avoid it and life remains relatively normal.

[Bürggermeister]

Likewise. I only get exposed to this shite when I click on this fucken thread out of morbid curiosity. I don't understand why ye invite that shite into your lives and minds, lads. Life is grand and rational in the real world. Get that shit out of your heads for fuck sake.

[ochoill]

I used to be able to enjoy the site and had my feed fairly curated with plenty of blocks, only engaging with what I wanted to see etc - for most of my time there I wasn't being fed any level of outrage, it was some odds and ends of Irish politics but mostly music and memes.  Lately my blocks have been useless and paid content is being shoveled at me but it is all horrendous, total grift and lies.  I never wanted that and it certainly wasn't what I signed up for, nor what I got for years.  But it is designed that way and even more so now.

Contrasting to Instagram - which has its own issues - but has an algorithm that works so unbelievably well it gives me absolutely nothing blood boiling, because it knows I personally will engage more with that content than the other bollocks.  I get music, gigs, art, and local pub & venue spam.  Totally happy with that.  As it happens I don't invite that shit into my mind and spend most of my week talking to actual people - but this is probably why I enjoy it here, sure yeah 3/4s of ye are randomers I never met but there's a common thread in us and a real world connection (and I have met a surprising amount of lads from here in real life).

I dunno anyway I agree with ye really and am just rambling now because it is on my mind.

[hellfire]

I'll be the first to admit that I pay more attention to these culture wars issues more than is good for me. That said working in tech and being in the rental market the last few years these issues are in no way abstract to me. The majority of them (including the trans thing) have come up for me in daily life. I often pine for the days I worked in bars and people were real and normal. I found lads who had devoted their lives to drinking to make more sense than than a lot of the loonies that infest HR departments now.

[Trev]

Yeah I was the same with Twitter, kept to following a few music, football, and webcomics, but the last few months is just spam about outrage shite I've no interest in, so got rid of it a few weeks ago

To be honest I'm pretty much done with social media, never had instagram, and only keep Facebook around for a couple of music groups and gig updates

[astfgyl]

Is Gab still going? I was on it for a bit and it was terrible. Rabid Jew haters seemed to account for about 90% of posts.

that's exactly what's there.  I thought it wasn't too bad for about a week when I was looking at art pages and stuff but the other shit wasn't long creeping in so I gave it up straight away